In my perspective “Giving a Dam” and “Dam Hetch Hetchy” have a good argument, but “Dam Hetch Hetchy” had a better argument than “Giving a Dam”. This article explains about a Congressional hearing on Hetch Hetchy held in 1913, supporters of the plan argued that conservation of natural resources was achieved through the wilderness. This article also explains how John Muir did not testify before Congress, but he argued against the Hetch Hetchy plan in this excerpt from his book 1912 book about, The Yosemite. The article of “Giving a Dam” is similar to the article of “Dam Hetch Hetchy” but it doesn’t give us the same information about the argument of the testimony of 1913 about the Hetch Hetchy plan. Therefore, the article of John Muir gives us
